[...] But Russell's Jacobinism is high Tory; it springs from the certitude that birth and genius are impose both the right and the obligation of moral precept. [...] True politics are the art of securing elbowroom for the best; they will alienate the squalor in the world at large that embarrasses or dissipates the life of the mind. [...]
Bertrand Russell was born and brought up an aristrocrat: grandson of a Prime Minister; extended family definitely in the ruling class (Whig aristrocracy of Victorian England)